Museum Provenance

Our fun Youth Dino Slippers are reminiscent of the cast skeletons of 2 Jurassic titans—the herbivore Triceratops and the carnivore Tyrannosaurus rex—who face off in our National Museum of Natural History’s Dinosaur Hall. Also on display in the Dinosaur Hall is an extensive collection of fossilized skeletons and cast models. Of special note, the Triceratops exhibit uses scanning and digital technology to show the first accurate dinosaur skeleton in virtual motion.

Every Smithsonian purchase will arrive with a museum provenance card explaining how it is adapted from or
inspired by an object or objects in our collection.

Purchased 2 sets of the youth size slipper for niece and nephew. 6 and 7.5 years old for Christmas. Both are sized too small and do not fit. Both shipped with open seams and poor workmanship. Website had little descriptive info with which to guage size accurately and now I am told return shipping is my responsibility. As an employee of the Smithsonaian I am appaled to learn we are associating our brand with this type of customer treatment and inferior product. I expect more of anything that carries the Smithsonain name.

I got three pairs for 5-7 year old boys who live in cold climates, and they were a HUGE hit. Maybe they'll use them for Halloween, too. A really fun, unique, and useful gift. The major problem was the sizes. Child size was labeled 6 ms. - 2 yrs, and teen size was labeled women's adult. So I had to return the "child" size, and reorder the larger size, hoping the boys will grow into them. I think they actually liked the "feet" were big and clumpy.

I bought a pair of these each for a 5 year old girl and a 3 year old boy. They loved them (along with the matching dinosaur tails)! My only complaint is that the single available size is a bit small. If I had to do it over again, I absolutely would. The kids really had fun with them! (And the adults had fun watching them roar around the house!)

This is for a 4 year old child who loves costumes. The good thing about them are that he's going to want to wear them everywhere. The bad thing is that he's going to want to wear them everwhere, his mother is going to have a time getting him to wear shoes when he goes visiting rather than his slippers.